Q: A salesperson at Flowercraft Garden Center in San Francisco recommended that I ask you about approaches for treating fuchsia mites. My old plants have developed curly leaves but still flower nicely ...

Galls are abnormal growths on a part of the plant. They can be caused by bacteria, insects, mites and fungi. They can be on any part of a plant and are the overgrowth of plant tissue in response to ...

Q: Our Autumn Blaze Maple tree has greenish-red bumps on many of its leaves. Are these insect eggs that will hatch and eat the dickens out of the leaves, or is it a disease? What treatment is ...

Master gardeners are available in the Cooperative Extension offices for soil testing and plant and insect identification. The cost is $5 for plant and insect identification and $3 for a soil pH test.

The bites are horrible. They have been itching 24 hours a day for a couple of weeks, and nothing seems to help. A: While there are several species of microscopic mites, the oak leaf gall mite has been ...

The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) is getting reports of oak leaf itch mite activity from around Missouri, especially western parts of the state and Kansas. Unfamiliar with these creepy, ...